Burning Shadows - Southwind lyrics

Outside of time Ancestral mystery Fathering Andean crypts and wandering to sea Swallowed by doldrums to an unknown destiny We shall take flight Six netherworlding farers’ history Our trades are many though our instruments are few To forge an ancient pa**age in Tuamotu Gone with the floods Our only hope to cross the jungle’s ends But still with baited breath I know we’ll find a way to run the Devil’s haul Shore in retreat As it is with greater horizons on the other side The sails hoisted and the banners raised up high Our Equatorial admission drawing nigh The waves’ conceit Will surely find a way to turn the tide Through glaucous chasms with their misting ivory crowns The coastal epochs clouding up and backing down On the horizon Storming the sea The ocean howling endlessly Tectonic vengeance Winds of the east Tiding the nords to the mark of the beast Our vessel is wasted I am drenched to the bone Ashore with this oaken messiah of stone Crowning the reef With eastern spoils for our company My feet within the sands I gaze upon the stars Witnessing missionary failures from afar On high relief Callao to copra grinning oversea One hundred suns afield we’ve forged upon the mast Three score our kin will find them in the looking gla**.